IT is expected, according to a well-informed French correspondent at Geneva, that an effort will be made to reach some compromise between the British dis- armament plan...

regard to payment of the American Debt instalment due . on June 15th is apparently to be postponed pending. further discussion. It is a new thing for America to send a demand...

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a final decision regarding the Bolivia-Paraguay arms embargo could not have been taken when the League Council held its ad- journed meeting on. Wednesday. The • United States,...

the reports of an agreement on questions regarding the Saar plebiscite are still unofficial there is little reason to doubt their authen- ticity. That is matter for great...

of 47,000 more persons at work, and 57,000 fewer unem- ployed, indicate that the industrial position has now reached a stage roughly intermediate between the worst period of the...

past week given new evidence of their financial difficulties. Signor Mussolini in his speech in the Chamber on Saturday gave the Budget deficit for this year as 4,000,000,000...

favour of the demolition of Waterloo Bridge and the construction of a new and wider bridge was not large-77 to 53—but the majority in the House of Commons on Wednesday against...

which Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Italy will all join, with a view to next year's Naval Conference is entirely wise. Serious difficulties are bound to...

we might expect that the first inland air mail service in Britain should be to a remote region difficult of access by ordinary means, such as Kirkwall in the Orkney . Islands....

with a rush, and advanced a whole batch of Bills on Tuesday. This celerity may have been partly due to the preoccupation of members with foreign affairs, though answers to...

Lord Lon- donderry and the Lords Spiritual met and defeated the critics ..of the Betting Bill in the House of Lords on Wednesday upon the main amendment to that measure. The...

of the question of the large number of Indian students who come to this country to complete their education. On the one side we hear of high distinctions won—an Indian Fellow of...

to propose at the Disarmament Conference that Turkey should be allowed to re-fortify the areas on both sides of the Dardanelles. The suggestion is one which ought not to be...

one small gleam of encouragement in a depressing world. The credit is due jointly to the League of Nations and to the late Foreign Minister of Brazil, Senhor Mello Franco, who...

I N the brief interval that must elapse between the writing of this article and its appearance in print the Disarmament Conference may take many twists and turns. But the...

O N Friday last the Bill to abolish the Irish Free State Senate passed its final stage in the Dail. If there is no General Election the Upper House cari delay it for about a...

Y OU may agree with Mr. Lloyd George or disagree with him, but it is very difficult not to be interested in what he says. A sentence or two that he used last Monday suggests a...

of British tennis- players at Paris this week is a pertinent sequel to the Oxford and Cambridge match three or four days earlier. For there is one feature of the Varsity contest...

that Labour and Liberal candi- dates hardly ever contest *them, and some so wedded to Labour that Conservatives rarely take the trouble to fight. But for the National Government...

attacks on the Co-operative Movement—in the interests, of course, of the private trader.. I shall be a good deal more impressed with the sincerity of this campaign when I sec it...

not as a rule models of lucidity, but a statement he made on Tuesday calls for something more than passing notice. The subject was the proposed embargo on arms exports to...

in con- temporary literature who are so constantly bracketed together in the thoughts of readers as Mr. G. K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc. They are, of course, intimate...

from some points of view that he was ever dragged into the reparations controversy. He went to the Peace Conference with Lord Cunliffe, then Governor of the Bank of England, as...

By HENRY W. NEVINSON [it. Andre Maurois' article in this series is unavoidably held over. It will appear in next week's SPECTATOR.] I T is a perplexing question. The mind is...

By RAY STRACHEY S HALL I send my daughter to college ? Thirty years ago few parents asked themselves this question, and when they did the answer turned on whether the daughter...

By SIR WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS L IKE Penis outside Paradise great ladies gather out- side the gates of the Chelsea Flower Show, longing to be the first to enter. Hostesses gave...

By MORAY McLAREN S COTLAND is for the average Continental one of the most remote and unvisited countries in Europe. The Balkan States at least lie upon the road to somewhere...

By GINA HARWOOD O PPOSITE the south door of the Cathedral stands a great flamboyant tree, and emerging from Mattins one hot Sunday we noticed a placard nailed to its trunk. "...

ID'UN CORRESPONDANT FRANCAIS] L A- Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe, qui .vient. de remporter, a Etampes, dimanche dernier, tut considerable succes sportif, est pout-etre celle de...

" The House of Rothschild." At the Tivoli. HERE is Mr. George Arliss back in English history, freely adapted once more in order to provide him with dramatic situations. The...

The Rock." By T. S. Eliot. Music by Martin Shaw. Produced by E. Martin Browne. At Sadler's Wells. TUE production of Mr. Eliot's pageant play is organized by the Diocese of...

WHEN The Planets was first performed in 1919, it was at once evident that one more composer of striking originality had been added to the band that was creating a musical...

FRIDAY, JUNE ist 29.10 The Chelsea Flower Show : Lord Aberconway, President of the R.H.S. - . N. 19.30 Along the Roman Road: " G. M. Boumphrey-The Fosse Way .. .. .. _ . N....

have published, as ideal scenes of this Whitsuntide, children bearing armfuls of flowers obviously pulled up almost by the roots. The flowers in question looked like bluebells,...

Extensive Farms We have heard a good deal of the wonders of the mechanized farm from the Oxford authorities in farm economics, who are pioneer thinkers ; but they have chiefly...

Intruding Pheasants On a neighbouring estate the pheasants have been exagger- ating an old, but not a frequent eccentricity. Not one, but half a dozen, have laid eggs in...

One morning one of the rectangles on this Worcestershire farm was .decently covered with a crop of cabbages. By the evening of the same day it was entirely planted with another...

Isolated eggs of a good many species are more difficult to identify than is easily realized. The most attractive nest in the garden is a willow warbler's. When you divide the...

Almost side by side of the intensive vegetable farm I have described is an extensive farm, also mechanized. It is famous for the appearance of two ships' funnels, converted into...

a garden, not to admire its flowers, though they were wholly admirable, but to identify a number of birds' nests. Four out of the first six were brown linnets' ; and in another...

Rough and Ready Not everything in such work is ideal. The putting in of the potatoes was rough work and probably the yield will be very poor as compared with the crops that the...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I draw attention to what may be a gravely dangerous fallacy in recent speeches by Mr. Baldwin ? On May 19th he stated that, " if they could get limitation...

Sm—The Association for Education in Citizenship has recently been formed in order to assist those who feel the necessity of consciously preparing the young people of this...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. G. F. Hourani (in your issue of May 18th) is a little ingenious (not to say ingenuous) in suggesting that because...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Figgess, in his letter appearing in last week's issue of The Spectator, says that "one has only to consider France and Germany,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Having just got back after a five months' stay in a German middle-class family in Magdeburg I was very inter- ested on reading Mr. H....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Your correspondents, Messrs. Bartley-Dennis and Hewson Cowen, in reply to the complaint of your Hindu contributor, Mr. Karaka, about the...

THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The recent deplorable attempt on the life of the Governor of Bengal and his daughter, and the latest opinion expressed by experienced administrators in...

[To the Editor of Tr SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The " Report on Economic Conditions in Italy " evidently depresses Mr. Hamilton Fyfe. There is much to depress any of us in the state of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the mention by " Janus " in your last week's number of the operation for appendicitis performed upon H.M. King Edward...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In my article on Germany in last week's number of The Spectator a paragraph regarding the S.S. detachments who mount guard over Herr...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—After an evidently cursory reading of my biography of Karl Marx, Mr. Alec Brown, in a letter printed in your last issue, accuses your...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—We, the undersigned scientific workers and teachers of the University of Cambridge, wish to affirm our fundamental opposition to the use...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Lord Winterton says in last week's issue that for the first time for at least 20 years a buzzard has appeared at Shillinglee. Buzzards...

By HARRY ROBERTS h• is part of the tradition of science deliberately to separate, for purposes of study and contemplation, single aspects of complex phenomena ; and the results...

Introduction to Keyserling. By M. Gallagher Parks. (Cape. 7s. 6d. ) Mits. PARKS, it is clear, believes Count Keyserling to be a very great man. She acclaims him, indeed, with...

Fine Art. By H. S. Goodhart-Rendel. (Clarendon Press. 3s. 6d.) Ma. GOODHART-RENDEL is the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. This book consists of four introductory lectures...

Christianity and Conduct. "The Spectator" Booklets, No. IV. (Methuen. ls.) Ix the Victorian Age, when it was the fashion in certain in- tellectual circles to dismiss Christian...

A Frenchman's London. By Paul Morand. Translated by Desmond, Flower. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) IT is always salutary, frequently enlightening, but not always agreeable, to be forced to...

Victorian Wallflowers. By Malcolm Elwin. (Cape. 10s. 6o. ) FOR some time past Mr. Elwin has been establishing himself among those (and their number is not excessive) who have an...

The Citizen and the Law. By Solicitor. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) Tins book is described as " an attempt to set down in plain - language the present state of the law with regard to a...

IN search of a father, because it is difficult to regard Browning, who never lacked words to express his emotions, as Cordelia. At all events when Landor, who had given his very...

Jack and Jill. By W. J. Turner. (Dent. 2s. 6d.) Whether a Dove or Sea-gull. By Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) No one, it seems, can...

Ma. BEcKorr is a humorist. They are so rare today that ' the word, like poet; has become one or contempt. But I intend no insult. He is in the tradition of Fielding and Sterne...

Here To-day and Gone To-morrow. By Louis Bromfield. But these are the harshest criticisms that need be made of Aldershot and Clacton. with the u g ly smear the British middle...

By Helen Simpson Mrs. Becton, in one overpowering, extravagant, and ever- delightful volume, dealt faithfully with all the domestic problems that could face the housewife of -...

ONE WOMAN'S STORY By Mary Britnieva The restraint and courage of this book might almost blind us to the horror of its story. It is one woman's story, but such tragedy must...

Some Disturbing - Factors more than one occasion when dealing in these columns With the financial outlook, and especially with the outlook for public securities,, I have felt it...

By Arthur D. 1nnes " To arrive at a fair estimate of any man's character," says Mr. Innes, " the primary necessity is to endeavour to realize his point of view, to appreciate...

The feature at the Annual Conference of Building Societies held at Harrogate was the very fine address delivered last week by Sir Harold Bellman, who this year is Chairman of...

STOCKHOLDERS. •• During the current half year, GiOss - Revenues have again risen, but there has doUbtlesi also been a rise in working exgenses, and a restoration of the ".cuts...

MARKETS HESITATING. As mentioned at greater length in another column, the Stock Markets have been somewhat affected during the past week by anxiety concerning political and...

Among the stocks which have suffered some reaction during the past week, Home Railway Ordinary Stocks have figured rather prominently ; the damping influence is the recurrence...

In addition - to the actual flotations of new capital, the cheapness of money' is continuing to stimulate conversion operationS, and before this number appears in print I expect...

The Annual Report of the Burmali_ Oil CoMpany is a good one and justifies -the increase in the Dividend from 20 to 221 per cent. The profit for the year Wag 1012,000 against...

" THE SPECTATOR," MAY 31sT, 1834. The following is a remarkable instance of sagacity in a hound which was purchased about a fortnight ago, in the neighbourhood of...

The races commenced on Tuesday. The course has been much improved since last year—the principal alteration being in the Derby Course, commencing at the barn, where it takes a...

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